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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:22:09 PST8
From:	"Mark D. Overholser" <os2@markoverholser.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HPFS Driver for XP !?

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I have not tried all these myself (yet!!)

Steve Carter wrote:

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> Originally, NT3.5 could read and write HPFS partitions. MS was a
> co-developer of HPFS, and NTFS draws it heritage from that HPFS
> development.
General File System Stuff:
<http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/CommonStuff.html>

Win NT 4.0 pinball.sys and Directions:
<http://members.blue.net.au/felgall/ntins2.htm>

Russian version:
<http://os2.in.ru/guru/hpfs_nt/>

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> PINBALL.SYS was the NT 3.5 driver and was installable on NT4
> as a fairly straightforward addition allowing HPFS access.
> Some time ago, there was a discussion here about how to do this.
> I sorta seem to remember that some kind of hack/patch was required
> to make Pinball.sys work with Win2K.
Win2000 pinball.sys with Patch and Directions:
<http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/tipps/hpfsw2k/index.php4>

> This driver was/is still available somewhere on the net. Peter
> is really good at finding this kind of thing, and I think
> I may even have saved a copy.
>
> But, I do NOT know for sure if this driver will, or even can, work on
> Win2K and its successors, i.e. Win XP. Several structural changes have
> been made to XP, and XP will not even run _all_ the previous
> windows software that formerly ran under windows. Much still runs,
> but some specific categories do not (e.g. AV software, Partition Magic).
I believe that the NTFS ver 5 or whatever it is now is the main failing
of the older Partition Magic's.

>
> Perhaps someone reading this can state definitively whether
> Win2K or XP can be "tricked" into sharing HPFS partitions.

>
> -- Steve

MarkO

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